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Rafael Espindola 5e892a7a03 Pass -lLTO after gold-plugin.o so that it gets used in systems that default to --as-needed. Patch by Felix Geyer. Fixes pr13262. llvm-svn: 162652		2012-08-27 03:03:07 +00:00
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CMakeLists.txt	Use absolute path to exportsfile in gold plugin CMake build.	2011-11-05 04:17:20 +00:00
Makefile	Pass -lLTO after gold-plugin.o so that it gets used in systems that default to	2012-08-27 03:03:07 +00:00
README.txt	s/libLLVMgold/LLVMgold/g	2010-08-08 21:14:26 +00:00
gold-plugin.cpp	Use LTO_CODEGEN_PIC_MODEL_DYNAMIC for PIE. This requirest a git version of	2012-06-13 13:30:24 +00:00
gold.exports	…

README.txt

This directory contains a plugin that is designed to work with binutils
gold linker. At present time, this is not the default linker in
binutils, and the default build of gold does not support plugins.

Obtaining binutils:

  cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/src login
  {enter "anoncvs" as the password}
  cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/src co binutils

This will create a src/ directory. Make a build/ directory and from
there configure binutils with "../src/configure --enable-gold --enable-plugins".
Then build binutils with "make all-gold".

To build the LLVMgold plugin, configure LLVM with the option
--with-binutils-include=/path/to/binutils/src/include/ --enable-pic. To use the
plugin, run "ld-new --plugin /path/to/LLVMgold.so".
Without PIC libLTO and LLVMgold are not being built (because they would fail
link on x86-64 with a relocation error: PIC and non-PIC can't be combined).
As an alternative to passing --enable-pic, you can use 'make ENABLE_PIC=1' in
your entire LLVM build.